Chick box



G. LOTH' CHICK BOX 5% axrc Filed July 20, 1956 INVENTOR. Gaylord Lo/[Z 3 ATTORN BY M l, v

Patented Mar. 16, 1937 cmox Box Gaylord Loth, Sandusky, Ohio, assignor to The Binde and Dauch Paper Company, Sandnsky. Ohio, a corporation of Ohio Application July 20, 1938, Serlai No. 91,481

11 Claim.

This invention relates to a container primarily useful for shipping live chicks, and is an improvement on that disclosed in my previous Patent No. 1,994,318, issued March 12,

6 1935. v The particular aim and advantage of the present invention is to improve inrespect to the facilities for stacking such containers in stable piles which, when piled to a considerable height, will be prevented from toppling over, and will have the weight of the pile carried from the box to box by corner supports. At the same time, the locking arrangements retain the advantages of those shown in my previous patent although otherwise applied, and so placed as to afford a more secure look by reason of the locking points being more widely spaced. This advantage is particularly effective in preventing opening or displacement of the lid when the carton is picke up. by the lid flanges.

Although this container is shown and described as particularly adapted for the shipping of live chicks, it will be realized that the features of the present invention are adaptable inconnection with other suitable containers.

To the accomplishment of the foregoing and related ends, said invention, then, consists of the means hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The annexed drawing and the following description set forth in detail certain structure embodying the invention, such disclosed means constituting, however, but one of, various structural forms in which the principle of the invention may be used.

In the accompanying drawing;

Fig. l is a perspective view of the entire container, closed;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of one corner on a larger scale and with the lid removed:- h

Fig. 3 is a corresponding plan view, omitting the box proper and the corner post;

Fig. 4 is a vertical section on the plane 4-4, Fig. 1; and

Fig. 5 is a perspective showing a corner post by 3881f.

Referring now particularly to Fig. 1, the box consists of a body portion I and a top 2, both being suitably perforated as shown, for ventila tion purposes. The interior of the box is divided into compartments-four in the present illustrative embodiment, by means of vertical partitions l and l interfltted at right-angles to one another by any usual means, for example the halfheight slots customary in box construction, these partitions being suitably secured at their ends to the box walls. Each partition has an upstanding projecting edge, 6 and 6 respectively, rising through a suitable slot I, in the cover.

Posts I I, II and I2, I2 are secured in the four corners of the box by any suitable means, such as stitching by staples I6, fastening by adhesive, or the like, which posts rest on the box bottom I5. The preferable material for the posts, like that of the rest of the container, is corrugated board and it is advisable that the post corrugations run vertically for greater strength in the direction of the'load, as well as for facility in manufacturing. The posts are of hollow prismatic form, preferably presenting a right triangle in plan view, the rectangular apex I I of the triangle being fitted inside the box corner. The posts project above the plane of the box lid a distance which should preferably be not less than the height of the central upstanding edges 5, '6.

In some or all of the corner posts the projecting portion of the diagonal face 20 has a short cut tab 2| with bottom edge 22 just clearing the box top 2, the tab being left attached to the rest of the corner post along a bending line 23, so that when the tab 2I is swung out it locks the cover 2 against lifting.

The box top 2 is cut out leaving a space 30 at each comer to fit over the corresponding corner post, but the depending flange 3| of the lid continues around the entire periphery of the box and is joined at the corners by any means usual in the box making art, staples 32 being the means illustrated.

The fastening tabs 2i may be used on all four corners, or they may be used only on two diagonally opposed corners. Thus. in Fig. 1 the two posts II, II are illustrated withsuch tabs and two posts I2, I2 which in other respects are like II, II, are illustrated as lacking such tabs.

It will be observed from the foregoing that I have invented a box of simple construction, which when stacked, forms columns at each of the four stacked corners. Preferably the upstanding edges 5 and 6 area little lower than the post tops, thus insuring central spacing and also preventing, tipping of the superposed boxes. The action of this column arrangement is shown in Fig. 4, where an intermediate box I, complete as to its corner, is shown between a lower box IE and an upper box IA. Here, it will be observed, the weight of the box IA is carried by the corner post II to the top of the corner post IIB of the bottom box IE.

To close the boxes, obviously, the tabs 2| are left in the plane of the post wall (the solid line position of Fig. 2). The lid is put on with each of the apertures 30 fitting over a corner post and with the slots 1, l ntting over the upstanding edges 5, 8. The locking tabs 2| are then swung out as in dotted lines of Fig. 2 and solid line of Fig. 2, and the box is ready for shipment. It will also be apparent that corner posts such as II, without locking tabs, may be used on all four corners and other means can then be employed for holding the lid down, such as tying with string, using sealed tabs, or using such tabs as those designated by reference characters II or [I in my earlier Patent 1,994,318. In any of these instances the corner posts serve every function herein'described except that of locking. However, as already mentioned, it is preferable to use locking tabs in the corner posts since this prevents springing of the lid away from the box if the box is picked up underneath the top flanges ll.

Other modes of applying the principle of my invention may be employed instead of the one explained, change being made as regards the structure herein disclosed, provided the means stated by any of the following claims or the equivalent of such stated means be employed.

I therefore particularly point out and distinctly claim as my invention:

1. A shipping box having a lid, corner aper-- tures through said lid, interior posts in said box, said posts having upstanding portions adapted to project through said apertures.

2. A shipping box having a lid, corner apertures through said lid, interior posts in said box, said posts having upstanding portions adapted to project through said apertures and tabs on said projecting portions adapted to be swung out of the planes of their respective portions and over said lid while maintaining attachment to said projecting portions.

3. A chick box comprising a body and a lid, posts secured in the corners of said body and adapted to project above said lid when applied, and apertures in the corners of said lid adapted to pass the post projections.

4. 'In combination in a chick box comprising a body and a lid, corner posts in said box adapted to project above said lid when in place, said corner posts being hollow structures of fibrous material.

5. In a chick box in combination, comer posts vertically disposed, said corner posts being composed of corrugated board with the corrugations vertically placed, said posts being formed as hoilow prisms.

6. In a chick box in combination, corner posts vertically disposed, said corner posts being composed oi corrugated board with the corrugations vertically placed, said posts being formed as hollow prisms of right-triangular horizontal section with the rectangular apex in the box corner.

7. A chick box comprising a body and a lid, said lid including an uninterrupted depending flange, posts secured in the corners of said body and adapted to project above said lid when applied and apertures in the comers of said lid but within said rim adapted to pass the post projections, said posts being based on the box bottom and projecting a uniform distance above the top.

8. A chick box comprising a body and a lid, posts in the corners of said body adapted to stand above said lid when applied, slots in said lid, apertures in said lid conforming to the horizontal cross-section of said posts, partitions in said box,

said partitions including upstanding edges adapted to project through said slots when said lid is applied.

9. In a vertical pile of shipping boxes, a plurality of upright posts secured to said boxes, the posts in each box being placed for successive vertical registration with corresponding posts in other boxes of the pile.

10. In combination in a chick box comprising a body and a lid, vertical posts in said box adapted to project above said lid when in place, said posts being hollow structures of fibrous material, and correspondingly positioned in all boxes.

11. In a pile of shipping boxes, a construction which comprises corner posts in each box, said posts projecting upwardly through the box lid. thereby affording air space between each box and that above it, and resting at their bottoms on the .respective box bottoms, said posts being placed in GAYLORD LOTH. 

